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RECRUITMENT
The art of retaining staff in difficult times
By Emma Haddleton | 13 September 2023
Martin Tucker and Emma Haddleton share their views on the positive leadership steps that can ensu...
FINANCE
Somerset in section 114 warning
By Martin Ford | 31 August 2023
Somerset Council is the latest authority to raise the prospect of a possible section 114 notice.
PLANNING
Keep it communal
By Cllr Barry Wood | 15 August 2023
Former levelling up secretary Greg Clark is wrong to advocate shifting planning from district to ...
FINANCE
Building a post-merger Bucks
By Clive Jones | 11 July 2023
Clive Jones describes how merging five councils into one unitary authority led to a streamlined r...
FINANCE
A week in the life of a section 151 officer
By Tracie Langley | 04 July 2023
Tracie Langley has had a technically challenging and fulfilling week, 'but I am feeling the full ...
REORGANISATION
Placemaking budgets should combine capital pots with revenue, says report
By Ann McGauran | 04 July 2023
Ministers should combine revenue and capital pots into a single placemaking budget to fund neighb...
ELECTIONS
The size conspiracy
By Colin Copus | 20 June 2023
The journey towards implementing the recommendations in the Redcliffe-Maud report is based on the...
WHITEHALL
Clark: Time to simplify local government
By Heather Jameson | 14 June 2023
The time has come for local government reorganisation and for councils to be given more power, fo...
WHITEHALL
Unfinished business
By Heather Jameson | 13 June 2023
Greg Clark has been local government secretary twice. He speaks to Heather Jameson about the need...
DEVOLUTION
Manchester 'frustrated' at pace of devolution
By Martin Ford | 08 June 2023
Manchester’s leader has said there is ‘a long way to go’ to meet the city’s devolution ambitions.
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